Strong's #5970: `alats (pronounced aw-lats')

a primitive root; to jump for joy, i.e. exult:--be joyful, rejoice, triumph.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

‛âlats

1) to rejoice, exult

1a) (Qal) to exult

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 8 times:

 

1 Samuel 2:1: "prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the LORD, mine horn is exalted in the LORD:"
1 Chronicles 16:32: "roar, and the fullness thereof: let the fields rejoice, and all that"
Psalms 5:11: "them: let them also that love thy name be joyful"
Psalms 9:2: "I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High."
Psalms 25:2: "be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph"
Psalms 68:3: "But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice."
Proverbs 11:10: "When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth: and when the wicked perish, there is shouting."
Proverbs 28:12: "When righteous men do rejoice, there is great glory: but when the wicked rise, a man is hidden."